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title: Silence keeps a feud alive; it is never too late to make up, and sad… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Silence keeps a feud alive; it is never too late to make up, and sad times sometimes end old feuds. Who acts: Silence, sad times. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 26

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Silence keeps a feud alive; it is never too late to make up, and sad times sometimes end old feuds.

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**Who acts:** Silence, sad times · **What happens:** keep, not be, make up, end · **To what, where:** feud, old feuds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silence, sad times), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:26
# text = Silence keeps a feud alive; it is never too late to make up, and sad times sometimes end old feuds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feud	feud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	feuds	feud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Silence | a feud |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feud=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Silence |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make up** | to-infinitive | Silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **end** | present | sad times | old feuds |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality feud=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:26`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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